Death and Disease in the Ancient City

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By: Valerie Hope (Editor), Eireann Marshall (Editor)

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Hardcover | 27 July 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Human frailty and mortality influence the structure and functioning of all societies; questions of how the ancients coped with their own mortality, how they sought to classify and control the causes of death, and how they treated the dying and the dead, are therefore central to any understanding of antiquity. This innovative volume draws upon recent research in archaeology, ancient history, and the history of medicine to evaluate all these issues. It addresses a wide range of topics, including views of ancient disease causation; public and private health measures; how the natural and urban environment affected the well-being of the individual; how the city was organised to protect the health and safety of the living; and how the living sought protection from the polluting influence of both the diseased and the dead. Lucid and accessible, this work is the first to unite the study of death and disease in antiquity, providing valuable insights into how these factors shaped the ancient city. It will appeal not only to classical scholars and students, but to all those interested in the history of death and disease.

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'This is an ambitious and stimulating collection of essays built around a strong central theme. - Rachel Hall Sternberg, The College of Wooster

'For the interplay of religious dread and mundane practical concerns, as well as for issues of prestige and disgrace and other matters of wide concern, there are useful conclusions and insights and a host of well digested and fascinating data.' - Mortality

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List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Death and disease in Cyrene: a case study	p. 8
Sickness in the body politic: medical imagery in the Greek polis	p. 24
Polis nosousa: Greek ideas about the city and disease in the fifth century BC	p. 35
Death and epidemic disease in classical Athens	p. 55
Medical thoughts on urban pollution	p. 65
Towns and marshes in the ancient world	p. 74
On the margins of the city of Rome	p. 85
Contempt and respect: the treatment of the corpse in ancient Rome	p. 104
Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter's fields in ancient Rome	p. 128
Death-pollution and funerals in the city of Rome	p. 152
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 190
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